Step 1.
Create a preliminary base and lay it flat on the table, with the closed tip pointing at 12 o'clock.
Step 2.
Make a valley fold, diagonal, by bringing the lower right edge of the right front flap from right to left, along the vertical symmetry axis.
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- To locate the axis, you can lift the left front flap vertically.
Step 3.
Make a valley fold, diagonal, by bringing the lower left edge of the left front flap from left to right, along the vertical symmetry axis.
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- You get a folding with a front flap in the shape of a kite. This flap has 2 triangles folded toward the vertical symmetry axis. The top edges of these 2 triangles form a horizontal line with a raised thickness.
Step 4.
Form a valley fold along this horizontal line, bringing the top closed tip down along the vertical axis. Crease the fold well as there are multiple layers, then unfold.
Step 5.
Unfold the 2 triangles of the front flap.
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- You obtain the initial preliminary shape, on which you can feel 2 slanting valley folds, starting from the bottom tip and reaching the top edges of the 2 front flaps, at the level of a horizontal valley fold.
Step 6.
Begin a petal fold. To do this, hold the first layer of the bottom tip between the thumb and forefinger of one hand.
Lift this tip until it is aligned with the horizontal valley fold.
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- It is noted that with this movement, the left and right points of the shape have spontaneously lifted, and the two oblique valley folds, starting from the second layer of the lower point, have spontaneously bent slightly.
Step 7.
Finish the petal fold. To do this, continue pushing upward the point you are holding until it is completely laid flat.
At the same time, with the other hand, continue folding the lower oblique valley folds, bring the side points back onto the vertical axis, and flatten the upper oblique folds that form. (Former valley folds have become mountain folds).
Make sure all folds are sharply creased.
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- You get a fold, with a front flap in the shape of a vertical diamond, whose lower point is locked in the fold, while the upper point is free.
Step 8.
Turn the fold from right to left.
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- You get a front flap in the shape of a square, in a diamond position, which partially covers the elongated diamond that was formed in the previous step.
- The vertical axis of symmetry is in a valley fold.
- A horizontal mountain fold cuts this axis and connects the two upper edges of the square.
Step 9.
Repeat the manipulations described in steps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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- You get at the front of the fold a vertical diamond, which aligns exactly with the diamond underneath.
- The base of the bird is ready.
- There is a diamond shape in a vertical position.
- The lower part is a triangular shape, built around two independent symmetrical triangles of quadruple thickness, separated by a vertical slit.
- The upper half has 3 overlapping triangles:
- at the front, a large double-thickness one, with a slit on top at the vertical axis.
- in the middle, a small quadruple-thickness one, with a closed top point.
- at the back, a large double-thickness one, with a slit underneath at the vertical axis.
- There are 9 points in total:
- a lower left point,
- a lower right point,
- a front left point,
- a back left point,
- a front right point,
- a back right point,
- a top front point,
- a top middle point
- and a rear upper tip.